About Cedre Ventures
Cedre Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. It is primarily based out of Courbevoie, France. As of May 2019, Cedre Ventures has invested in 19 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in France based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to HealthTech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of BCDiploma Overall, Cedre Ventures portfolio has seen 4 acquisitions including key companies like Sowefund, Datananas and Archionline. A lot of funds co-invest with Cedre Ventures, with names like Women Business Angels sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Cedre Ventures has team of 2 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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Cedre Ventures' List of Top Investments
Cedre Ventures has a portfolio of 19 companies. Their most notable investments are in SENSING-LABS and Sowefund.Their portfolio spans across France and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, HealthTech, Consumer and 15 other sectors, across stages such as Seed stage. Here is the list of top investments by Cedre Ventures:
1. Sowefund
Sowefund is an equity crowdfunding platform which connects startups with investors. All the startups are pre-vetted before they are made available to the investors. The company only allows accredited investors on its platform.
Key facts about Sowefund
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.12M
- Employee Count: 36 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Investisseur Prive, Paris Business Angels and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 04, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
2. Panopli
Panopli is a provider of e-commerce solutions for retailers. Offerings include online store creation, customizable product inventory, pre-order campaigns, outsourced drop shipping, and more. It offers products such as clothing, fashion accessories, home decor, stationery, and more. The pricing model is subscription-based and varies according to the number of opted features.
Key facts about Panopli
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $3.23M
- Employee Count: 26 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Angelsquare, Bpifrance and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 09, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Smartrenting
Smartrenting is a company that offers rental management services to the residential property owners, and renters. It offers an online platform for students, young professionals, renters and property owners to rent their residential property to the company for the period the apartment is empty. The company guarantees the rent to the renter by sub-letting the property to a third party. It also offers complete insurance coverage to the renter.
Key facts about Smartrenting
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1.17M
- Employee Count: 3 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Sylvain Zimmer, CIC and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 14, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. BCDiploma
Blockchain-based platform offering a digital portfolio solution for students. It offers a turnkey solution for the schools to issue certificates. The students can authenticate their certificates using an URL. The cost will remain fixed in terms of fiat currencies, so as to avoid the fluctuation of the crypto markets.
Key facts about BCDiploma
5. Isahit
Provider of an AI platform for outsourcing digital tasks. Enables users to train computer vision & natural language processing data and also provides data processing solutions. Features image & video annotation, bounding box & polygon, image segmentation, text annotation, text categorization, OCR transcript and sentiment analysis solutions, among others.
Key facts about Isahit
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Seed
- Employee Count: 287 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Europa, Sodexo Ventures and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Apr 01, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Cedre Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Cedre Ventures has invested in 19 companies over the last 10 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in BCDiploma.Cedre Ventures' Investments by Stage
Cedre Ventures has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $777K.Cedre Ventures' Investments by Sector
Cedre Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, FinTech, Consumer, Consumer Goods and EdTech. Notably, it has invested in 15 Tech companies, 14 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 11 Software companies and at least 6 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
FinTech | 2 |
Consumer | 1 |
Consumer Goods | 1 |
EdTech | 1 |
Others | 7 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cedre Ventures' Investments by Geography
Cedre Ventures has made most investments in France (7).Cedre Ventures' recent investments
Cedre Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Cedre Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2019 | France | Seed | 7549 | [+1] | |
Jul 27, 2017 | France | Seed | 9888 | ||
Jun 26, 2017 | France | Seed | 9379 | ||
Feb 14, 2017 | France | Seed | 8436 | ||
Jan 20, 2017 | France | Seed | 5893 | [+2] |
Acquired companies in Cedre Ventures' Portfolio
4 companies from Cedre Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was WonderPush in Dec 2023 by Brevo for $*****.Here are Cedre Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 11, 2023 | Jul 27, 2017 | Seed | 3709 | |
Oct 19, 2023 | Oct 04, 2016 | Seed | 7527 | |
Apr 01, 2020 | - | - | 5621 | |
Sep 26, 2019 | - | - | 9834 |
Team profile of Cedre Ventures
Cedre Ventures has a team of 2 members including 2 Partners located in France. Cedre Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Cedre Ventures
Over the past 10 years, 11 investors have co-invested in Cedre Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Top Co-investors of Cedre Ventures: 10 investors entered a company along with Cedre Ventures. These include investors like Women Business Angels (2 companies).
- Invested after Cedre Ventures: Europa (1 company) is the only investor which has invested in Cedre Ventures's portfolio after their investments.
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French blockchain startup BCDiploma raises 1.2 million eurosCryptonaute•May 23, 2019•BCDiploma, Investessor, Cedre Ventures, Leonis Investment and 2 others
